When it comes to calculating industry size, the game draws on two main stats: your support for that particular industry, and your support for industry in general. In the Grendels, the latter number is enormous; one of the biggest in the game. In the Bruce, it's actually slightly negative. When it c...

Massive fluctuations, in world rankings for Wysterians, for a short term comparison between December 15th and now. Galicia-Volhynia, Equus, and Ummagumma were the really strange jumps, back and forth. Nak nak 1st, Koffee 2nd (+1), the Centauri 3rd (-1), Isla Vista 8th, Sdaeriji 9h (+2), Wulfhelm 11...

Massive fluctuations, in world rankings for Wysterians, for a short term comparison between December 15th and now. Galicia-Volhynia, Equus, and Ummagumma were the really strange jumps, back and forth. Nak nak 1st, Koffee 2nd (+1), the Centauri 3rd (-1), Isla Vista 8th, Sdaeriji 9h (+2), Wulfhelm 11t...

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This ranking seems based on industry, particularly private industry. Looking at the top of the ranking was virtually a who's who of economic giants. There are several examples of nations with no education spending atop the rankings. This doesn't mean they shouldn't be technologically advanced but n...

Make Tesla more famous and well-known than Edison. Because JUSTICE. Totally this! Make sure Tesla has all the funding and support he needs and advance technology in the West by 50-100 years, especially by keeping Edison from blocking Tesla's genius by influence peddling and dirty tricks. The US cou...

I have the code of the rankings. If both were in use at the same time, which seems unlikely, then the "Beef-based Agriculture" measure would've been removed as it measured exactly the same thing as the "Agriculture" one. Not just likely. It was what happened. Agriculture and Bee...

Beef-based agriculture is simply the name that Max originally used for what is now referred to as the agriculture industry. Same as Uranium Mining -> Mining, Soda Sales -> Beverage Sales, Door-to-door Insurance Sales -> Insurance, Woodchipping -> Timber Woodchipping. The name was changed in the Wor...

I had a thread on the missing world census category last year: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=184481&p=9667372#p9667372 Beef Based Agriculture hasn't been shown since 2004. When I brought it up years ago (on the Jolt forum) none of the Mods then even remembered the catego...

I think it has more to do with: Nations who answer issues in a manner that causes their taxes to rise have cumulative effects on their tax rate. Nations who answer issues in a manner that keep taxes low will generally not affect these stats, except when a higher percentage of them are created or whe...

Yarooo, Grendel Warleader and Dictator for Life, has killed a lot of someones. He was an officer in the Kill Packs (special forces) who fought in a few wars. Kill Packs tend to live up to their name. Yarooo came from a prominent family (sort of like a militant version of the Kennedys, but with big f...

The Grendels was created, using wolfen styled gnolls to represent the worst aspects of predatory and sociopathic capitalist behavior. The name was taken from Beowulf, but used in reference to monsters in general and specifically the biped, wolfen, humanoids of the Indomitable Borderlands. They repre...

We are a peaceful people. The Indomitable Borderlands of the Grendels would like to state to our NS worldwide consumers of our manufactured goods that we are not the warlike people you see portrayed in your popular media. There are times however when aggressive steps must be undertaken to feed our i...